Portable screw-press



entran saarns PATENT anion.

ALEXR. HALLAM, OF NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA.

PORTABLE scmaw-Penss` To all 'whom t may concern.'

Be it known that I, ALEXANDER HALLAM, of New Orleans, in the parish ofOrleans and State of Louisiana, have invented a new and useful portablescrew for pressing the heads into tobaccodicgsheads after they have beenopened for inspection, thereby preventing the great loss of the articleoccasioned by inspection; and I do hereby de clare that the following isa full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to theaccompanying drawing, which forms a part ot' this specification, inwhich- Figure l, shows the screw applied to the hogshead; Fig. 2, thehooks detached.

The nature of my invention consists in connecting with a screw and`cross head tour more or less cantshooks by means of rods or chains sothat the screw may be madeto act on the upper head of the cask byapplying the cant-hooks to the bottom chine, which can be done withoutmoving it from the skids on which it rests in the ware house. Throughthe center of a cross head (a) of four arms more or less, a verticalscrew (Z2) is put which can be turned up and down by means of a winch(c) the upper end of the screw may `have a ring in it by which theapparatus can be lifted.

Tothe ends ot each of the arms a rod or Specification of Letters PatentNo. 3,270, dated September 14, 1843.

chain (ci) is attached which reaches down to the bottom of the cask tobe operated on and on its end there is a flat hook (e) that can behooked under the end of the chine of the cask and hold down the crosshead while the screw acts on the head to press it down, a follower (f)being first placed between the screw and the head.

By t-he present method in inspecting' ware houses a considerable amountot' tobacco is left out of each hogshead in order to get in the headagain after inspection, or the great trouble and expense of moving thehogshead must be resorted to, to place it under a screw which is in apress frame or box this `in many cases is impracticable; but by mymethod any hogshead in the warehouse can be brought under `the action ofmy portable screw, without moving it from its place.

Vhat I claim as .my invention and desire te secure by Letters Patent is-The combination ot cant hooks (c) with a screw and cross headconstructed and arranged substantially in the manner and for the purposeherein specilied.

ALEXR. HALLAM. p

`Witnesses CHARLES B. Avis,

GEORGE A. UNDERHILL.

